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Characterization of nuclear triiodothyronine (T3) and tetraiodothyronine (T4) binding in developing brain tissue.

Abstract：

:The main objective of this study was to characterize nuclear T3 and T4 binding in the developing rat brain. More specifically, we sought to determine (a) whether T3 and T4 bind to the same nuclear receptor, (b) whether there are multiple forms of nuclear T3 or T4 receptors, and (c) whether the above parameters are similar in nuclei of cerebral hemispheres and cerebellum of developing rat brain. From in vivo and in vitro binding experiments utilizing gel filtration techniques, we have shown that T3 binds to a main macromolecular fraction of molecular weight (M.W.) approx. 60 000 daltons; however, a minor binding component of M.W. greater than 100 000 daltons was also observed. Utilizing the same techniques it was shown that T4 does not bind with the main T3 binding macromolecule but only with the minor (M.W. greater than 100 000) binding component. Inasmuch as T4 competes with T3 for its binding, we have hypothesized that (a) the stability of the T4-receptor complex requires special stereochemical receptor-chromatin relationships that hold for in vivo or de novo conditions but not in the salt-extracted (0.4 M KCl) nuclear receptor preparation, or (b) T4 interacts with more than one receptor unit and forms unstable T4-receptor complexes corresponding to the high M.W. macromolecular fraction. The T3 and T4 binding characteristics described above were common to both brain regions at both developmental ages examined; however, these tissues were found to differ in quantitative aspects of T3 and T4 binding and with respect to the rate of the in vivo T4 to T3 conversion. We suggest that the nuclear T4 does not contribute to the end biological effects but, rather, it determines the number of free T3 binding sites. The end biological responses may thus be proportional to the binding of T3--derived from plasma and the local cellular conversion of T4 to T3--with its major nuclear binding protein and inversely proportional to the T4 nuclear concentration.

journal_name

Mol Cell Endocrinol

journal_title

Molecular and cellular endocrinology

authors

Margarity M,Matsokis N,Valcana T

doi

10.1016/0303-7207(83)90158-2

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1983-08-01 00:00:00

pages

333-51

issue

2-3

eissn

0303-7207

issn

1872-8057

pii

0303-7207(83)90158-2

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pub_type

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Characterization of nuclear triiodothyronine (T3) and tetraiodothyronine (T4) binding in developing brain tissue.